Thing 15

This is fascinating! In 2001, our daughter’s Latin 2 tutor (a high school student a year ahead of her) would meet her at Barnes and Noble. It was enlightening to see the standing (floor sitting) room only “study hall” taking place every evening and Sat. and Sunday afternoons. Spots like this are where the consumers of Library 2.0 meet to have the face to face social connections we all crave.

I particularly liked paragraph 2 of Dr. Wendy Schultz’s article, "To a temporary place in time." http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/6.htm It addresses the social connectedness that a library has always provided a community. Since I have fond memories of sitting on a chaise lounge beside a roaring fireplace reading Nancy Drew in the children's room of a small town city library in Kansas, the idea of the library as a hub of the community is ingrained in my psyche.

The wikipedia article on Library 2.0 has a header about the article needing better citations. “its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations” There’s some irony here.

I’d like to discuss citations for young children, because I truly believe if you are using other’s intellectual property that you must give credit. A large % of the third graders I teach, say they have “researched” for their class but insist that they are not held accountable for where they got their information. I’m not into formal citations for this age, but I do require that they give enough information so that I can find their source if necessary. Should I be doing more? less?